Imperial Russia

The term Russia Impérial E is used to cover the historical period since the expansion of Russia under Pierre Large the of the the Baltic with the Pacific Ocean until the deposition by the Bolchevik S of Nicolas II, the last Tsar, at the beginning of the Révolution of 1917.

The Russian State was officially called Russian Empire (Russian: РоссийскаяИмперия , Rossiïskaya Imperiya ) of 1721 at 1917. Its capital was Saint-Pétersbourg (term with German, famous consonance Petrograd , Russian term, after the beginning of the First World War).

At the end of the 19th century, the size of the empire was of approximately 22  400  000 square kilometers (almost 1/6e of the emerged grounds of the sphere), and only the British Empire could compete with this vastness.

If one refers to the Recensement of 1897, the population of the Empire was on this date of approximately 128,2 million people, and the majority of this one, 93,4 million, lived in Russia d' Europe.

More than 100 different ethnicities lived on the territory of the Empire (Russians accounting for 45% of the population). It was about the country more populated western world (68 million inhabitants in the German Empire, 95 million with the the United States of America) with a strong population growth, with the census of 1913, one counted 159 million inhabitants.

Pattern of the settlement according to the languages, according to the census of 1897, total population: 122  666  000

In addition to the territories of current the Federation of Russia, Russia counted the States of the Baltique, the Ukraine, the Bielorussia, part of the Poland, the Moldavie (or Bessarabia), the the Caucasus, the Grand-duché of Finland and an important part of the Central Asia, without counting the Alaska, sold in 1867.

In 1914, the Russian Empire consisted of 81 provinces ( gouberniyas ) and 20 areas ( oblasts ). The vassal and the Protectorat S of Russia counted the khanats of Bukhara, Khiva and after 1914 Touva.

The Russian Empire was a Autocratie directed by a Empereur, generally called Tsar even if his official designation is Impérator (император), resulting from the dynasty of the Romanov. Orthodoxe Christianity was the official Religion Empire, and was controlled by the sovereign through the Saint Synod. The subjects of the Empire were separate in classes like the dvorianstvo (Noblesse), Clergé, merchants, Cosaques and peasants. The subjects born in Siberia and Central Asia were officially recorded like inorodtsy (“another kind”), another class.

In supplement of Russia itself, the empire included/understood the constitutional monarchies Kingdom of Poland (1815-1863), placed under the patronage of Russia by the Congrès of Vienna and the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917)

The Blason of Russia was the eagle bicephalous charged in its heart with the escutcheon of Moscovie, holy Georges embanking the dragon. Its national Hymne was " God, keeps the tsar" ( " Boje, tsaria khrani" ).

After the fall of monarchy during the Revolution of February 1917, Russia was declared République by the Provisional government.

Tsars and tsarina of the imperial period

See also: List of the monarchs of Russia

See too

  • geopolitical current: to see Géostratégie of Russia as comparison of the spheres of influence.
  • imperial Armée Russian
  • the imperial extension with Russia on the continent of Asia is comparable to the process of European colonization which took place in other parts of the world like the Conquête of the West for the Siberia.

Simple: Russian Worsens

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